. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. Greneral paresis (terminal stage). Terminal dementia. tion, and yet in some of them, especially in 161, 162, and 163, itwould be difficult to detect that there was any mental aberrationwhatever. CHAPTER YI. MELANCHOLIA. Definition. Melancholia is a form of insanity in which thereis a profound melancholy, the cerebral reflexes are lessened andattended with great mental distress, and there is often a suicidalimpulse. Clinical History. Melancholia may be divided into fourforms: 1. Simple melancholia; 2. Agita
. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. Greneral paresis (terminal stage). Terminal dementia. tion, and yet in some of them, especially in 161, 162, and 163, itwould be difficult to detect that there was any mental aberrationwhatever. CHAPTER YI. MELANCHOLIA. Definition. Melancholia is a form of insanity in which thereis a profound melancholy, the cerebral reflexes are lessened andattended with great mental distress, and there is often a suicidalimpulse. Clinical History. Melancholia may be divided into fourforms: 1. Simple melancholia; 2. Agitated melancholia, or melancholia agitata; 3. Hallucinatory melancholia; 4. Melancholia with stupor. The simple form may, in its slighter degrees, bear an almost indis-tinguishable resemblance to an ordinary depression of spirits, and yet,even in the slighter cases, there is a peculiar visage of mingled woe,shadowy mental dulness, and distrust, that is instantly detected by anexperienced eye. Relatives and friends, so intimately acquainted withthe patient as to be competent to notice m
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